Experimental systems to explore life origin: Perspectives for understanding primitive mechanisms of cell division

Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation

Volumn 53, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-9

  Adamala, Katarzyna ^a   Luisi, Pier Luigi ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL CELL; BIOGENESIS; BIONICS; CELL DIVISION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL CELLS; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIONICS; CELL DIVISION; HUMANS;

EID: 79959738368     PISSN: 00801844     EISSN: 18610412     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19065-0_1     Document Type: Article

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